Fun Ways to Celebrate Before and During the Chinese New Year Season

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Fun Ways to Celebrate Before and During the
Chinese New Year Season

• Clean House Before the New Year arrives, the
  Chinese consider it very important to give the
  house a thorough cleaning, sweeping away any bad
  luck that may have accumulated over the past
  year.
• Home Decoration! Doors and window panes are
  also often painted red, considered to be a lucky
  color. In addition, people like to hang papercuts
  on doors and windows. (Paper cutting is an
  ancient Chinese art form dating back to the Han
  dynasty).
• Dont clean for the first few days of the New
  Year if you do any sweeping during this time,
  you risk sweeping away your good luck.
• Offer a Sacrifice to the Kitchen God Many
  families have a poster of the kitchen god in
  their kitchen. The custom is to offer a
  ceremonial sacrifice to the Kitchen God, to make
  sure that he gives a good report on the familys
  behavior when he returns to heaven.Nian gao is
  popular, or children may rub honey on him.
• An important tradition on New Years Eve is for
  families to gather together and spend the evening
  preparing chinese dumpling. According to Chinese
  style culture, it is common to hide a coin in one
  of the dumplings. Whoever gets the dumpling with
  the coin will supposedly have good luck in the
  coming year.Give out money packets On New
  Years day, children receive leisee- red packets
  decorated with gold symbols and filled with
  lucky money.
• Serve festive foods Throughout the New Years
  season, certain foods are served because they
  symbolize abundance and good fortune. Besides
  preparing special dishes, tangerines and oranges
  are often passed out to children and guests, as
  they symbolize wealth and good luck.
• Prepare a tray of togetherness - This is a
  circular or octagon-shaped tray with eight
  compartments, each containing symbolic foods such
  as lotus seeds and lychee nuts, that provides a
  sweet beginning to the New Year.
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